Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
His entire presence screamed intimidation; no one would ever know it was Mom who wore the pants in their relationship.
She had always been the decision-maker. I used to see that as a weakness, but now I wasn’t so sure that was the case because I could see myself letting a certain luna take the reins from me too.
I smiled down at her, and she went forward and kissed my father on the cheek in a chaste greeting before doing the same to my mother.
Mom was an entirely different entity. She was all sharp lines, fierce eyes, and a body almost as built as my father’s. She was strong, confident, and didn’t tolerate much outside of the box she had been drawn into.
She gave a tight smile at the greeting, then pulled me in for the same one. I gave her a peck, then pulled away as the pack whispered at the interactions, probably reading every single part of our meeting, while I tried not to.
I didn’t want their honesty. I wanted the sugarcoated version because anything less and I might lose the tight grip I had on my control.
“Son. Your winter born is glowing.” My father grinned, and Lorelai smiled, a blush tinting her cheeks as she pulled out of my grasp and sat down on her own.
I knew she had to show her strength, but I felt every twang of pain it gave her to sit so quickly unassisted. She smiled reassuringly up at me as Kai put his hand on her thigh under the table.
She grabbed my hand and pulled me down next to her.
“Lorelai. This is Angus and Valentina Achlis, previous alphas of the Forest pack, current elders on the council.” I introduced them, and Lorelai nodded with a smile.
“It’s an honor,” she said with the perfect amount of poise, and I wanted to kiss her for it.
Not too weak, no waver in her voice, her eyes bold, meeting my mother’s directly before shifting to my father second.
Mom had her hair in a severe knot at the back of her head, braids and beads woven into it that trailed down her back and gown.
She sank into her chair on the other side of the circular table on the platform at the head of the hall.
Their backs were to the pack, but that was how they were. They gave them their backs as a show of trust, the pack always protecting them.
I wasn’t there yet. Especially after Taylor and Garrett pulling their challenge shit.
Everyone else sat down after that, and dinner was served.
I thought it was going to be awkward, or at least be a shakedown of some kind, but my girl was perfect.
She shot back every answer and word my parents said, her hand on my thigh the whole time, soothing the rush of anxiety inside me.
Kai was enjoying the show as Brax talked animatedly with my father. They had always been so close. Sometimes it made me jealous, sometimes it made me glad because Brax had never had that with his own father.
“So. This child. Its power is almost tangible, you are exuding it from every part of you,” my mother said, and I listened keenly for any hint of malice.
Lorelai just grinned and nodded. “He’s a strong one.”
My mother’s eyebrows raised. “You are certain it is a boy?”
“Yes,” I said, and she nodded, a smirk on her lips.
“It will be of alpha blood, possibly the strongest we have seen yet.” My mother could have drooled then and I wouldn’t have been surprised.
“That’s what I’ve heard,” Lorelai countered, and that had my mom grinning like a crazy person.
“Mom, just let her eat,” I snapped, and Mom glared at me.
“I’m okay, Derik,” Lori whispered.
I looked down at her, needing to see it in her face, but I could tell she was. The link was beaming with pride. She was enjoying showing off our child.
“And you believe the power will linger in you once the child is born?” my mother asked, and Lorelai stumbled on her reply, frowning, which of course had me tightening my grip on her.
Kai grumbled low as Brax turned to the altercation with narrowed eyes that grew cloudy.
“Whether it does or not, my position with the alphas and pack will not change,”
Lorelai said firmly, and my mother shrugged.
“I suppose that is the hope.”
There it was. The punchline.
She thought that Lorelai would provide the powerful heirs but take a back seat, become meek and human once it was out of her, but my mother hadn’t seen winter born Lorelai, and she was not human.
“Not the hope. The reality. I am mated to two of the alphas and linked to the other.
That is not going to change whether I carry our child or not,” she reiterated, her anger bubbling.
My mother’s nostrils flared before she took a sip of wine and sat back, her spine still straight as she folded one leg over the other.
“You still expect to be luna of this pack then? Do you know what that takes? The power?” she asked, and Lori smirked.
“Probably the same amount of power it takes for a human to birth an alpha and survive,” she countered, not faltering as she defended herself.
I wanted to jump in, but she had to prove herself. She had to show she could hold her own or she would always have a target on her back.
“There is no promise of that either,” my mother muttered.
Kai snarled. “Respect, Elder. We are the alphas now, know your place,” he bit angrily, his knuckles white.
Lorelai put her hand on his arm. “I can handle it, Kai,” she said quietly.
He slowly turned his anger to her, and it fell away from his features.
“Can you?” my mother challenged, and I thought Lorelai would snap back, get angry, but instead, she smirked and stood up.
“Would you like a demonstration, Elder?” she asked.
I stood quickly, not sure she was strong enough for that, but she shook her head.
“I am strong enough, and I will prove it,” she promised.
I knew she could, I just knew she’d pay for it later, but one look in her eyes and I knew she wasn’t going to appreciate me getting involved further.
“Yes.” My mother lifted her chin.
Lori nodded and stepped back on the platform. The wolves were whispering like crazy, watching the altercation with keen eyes.
My mother went to the other end of the platform and faced Lorelai.
Kai stood up and yanked the entire table away, watching with flaring nostrils and closed fists. He wasn’t going to let this go very far, but he seemed in control enough to see what they were about to do.
Brax had white eyes, assessing the intentions, and I knew he would have already stopped the fight if they had been ill.
“Are you sure she can, Derik? She is human,” my father whispered in an urgent tone, but I smirked at my human.
She was more than that, and it was about time my pack stopped questioning that.
Including the elders.
“She’s winter born, my mate, and our luna. She does not take instructions from those beneath her, including me.”
I smirked at her, pride swelling in my chest as she looked down at her stomach and whispered, “Protect me.”
She looked up at my mother and grinned. “Try to attack me,” she invited, and I stopped Kai from interrupting.
“Trust her,” I snapped, and he snarled, turning back to the fight.
My mother didn’t hesitate, her long, strong body charging at my mate. She didn’t get to her. A shield burst out around Lorelai, shoving my mother back, holding her against the back wall.
My mother came back at her again. And again. Every time, Lorelai pressed her back. Mom didn’t even get close.
Until she did the one thing that ensured Lorelai’s forfeit.
She ran at Kai, yanking an athame from her boot and pressing it against Kai’s throat. Lorelai’s lips pursed in a thin line before she walked forward.
“Now what, Luna?” my mother puffed, the blade tight against Kai’s throat.
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